Tempora Mutantur

We're very happy to bring Kutikuti's exhibition Tempora Mutantur to Latvia for the opening of Riga Zine Fest.

The Tempora Mutantur anniversary exhibition showcases the recent comics by the current members of the Finnish contemporary comic association Kutikuti. The works have been created specifically for the anniversary exhibition using a screen printing technique. The colorful combination of large comics reflects the diverse styles and narrative methods of Finnish comics in 2015.

Izstāde un radošā darbnīca "ComiX4= Komiksi vienlīdzībai" Rīgā

Fragments no Amandas Baezas komiksa "Bērni atklāj, ko slēpj pieaugušie"

kuš! aicina uz izstādes "Komiksi vienlīdzībai" atklāšanu un radošo darbnīcu! 
Izstādes atklāšana: 10.jūlijā, 18.30 Rīgas jauniešu centrā „Kaņieris” (Kaņiera iela 15, www.kopnica.lv)

Četrpadsmit vizuāli stāsti aicina ielūkoties Eiropā, kas aug, mainās, un ir nepārtrauktā kustībā. Izstādes darbu autori stāsta par migrāciju – fenomenu, kuru paši ir piedzīvojuši. Šobrīd viņi dzīvo Eiropā, taču viņi vai viņu ģimene nākusi no citas valsts Eiropā vai ārpus tās. Viņu komiksi atklāj gan dažnedažādos migrācijas veidus, gan savu un vecāku personīgo pieredzi – to, kas šī procesa rezultātā ticis pazaudēts, atrasts vai tiek veidots no jauna. Izstādes darbi ir daļa no konkursa par pirmo Eiropas balvu komiksu autoriem ar migrācijas izcelsmi.

Fragments no Tomasa Kušēri komiksa "Problēma"

Izstādē piedalās: Angela Wanjiku Njoroge, Mari Ahokoivu, Amanda Baeza, Miriam Klara Czapp, Corsino, Dmitry Yagodin, Carlos G.C. Medina, Sabīne Moore, Evangelos Androutsopoulos, Elena Vitagliano, Thomas Cuschieri, Camilo Collao, Dora Graur, Laura Ķeniņš

Pirms izrādīšanas Rīgā, izstāde pabijusi Igaunijā, Bulgārijā, Rumānijā, Austrijā, Zviedrijā un Portugālē.

Ilustrācijas autore: Amanda Baeza

Radošā darbnīca: 13.jūlijā no 11.00 – 19.00 (abas dienas) Rīgas jauniešu centrā „Kaņieris”. 

Piedalīties aicināts ikviens vecumā no 15 līdz 25 gadiem, kam interesē vizuāli stāsti!

Divu dienu darbnīcā dalībnieki varēs piedalīties radošās aktivitātēs neformālās mācīšanās vidē, iemācīties, kā izstāstīt stāstu komiksā un iepazīties ar komiksu autoru migrācijas pieredzes stāstiem.

kuš! visits TCAF

kuš! finally made it's first trip overseas and visited the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (short TCAF). We're still a little bit overwhelmed and can't really believe it, but looks like we have some photos to prove it. So we'll just show them off to you and will write a comment or two about them.

So here you can see how we unpacked the brand new issue š! #17 'Sweet Romance' which had it's TCAF debut.  We're definitely not used to flying so far.

Berliac 'Inverso'

kuš! and the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art are inviting to the opening of the exhibition “Inverso” by Argentinian artist Berliac.

When: 06.03., 18:30
Where: Office Gallery, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art

The Last Match in Ljubljana!

Late last year kuš! brought 'The Last Match' to Kino Šiška in Ljubljana, Slovenia where they called it Poslednja vžigalica. We had such an amazing time there with our hosts from Stripburger, that we almost where too shy to report about it, but now it is time to share some of our impressions.

The growing travelling exhibition had already 364 tiny artworks. Oskars Pavlovskis is labeling them here.

The Last Match, Graz

kuš! currently exhibits an extended The Last Match exhibition at the Forum Stadtpark in Graz, Austria. The exhibition can still be visited until the 20th of July. In case Graz is not on your way, here you can see what you miss. 

The exhibition was set up by kuš! editor David Schilter and the artists Dace Sietina and Martins Zutis, who made a special installation and wall paintings.

The exhibition shows 343 tiny artworks about the last match by comics artists and illustrators from 52 different countries, the works are unpacked from 14 matchboxes and displayed in one row on the walls of the Forum.

kuš! exhibition in Graz!

kuš! is proud to announce the upcoming exhibition at the Forum Stadtpark in Graz, Austria!

flyer by Dace Sietina

We will show an extended version of the growing and traveling THE LAST MATCH exhibition. At the opening on Friday the 21st of June kuš! editor David Schilter and the artists Dace Sietina and Martins Zutis will be present.

The exhibition shows 336 tiny artworks by comics artists and illustrators from 52 different countries, a special installation by Dace Sietina and Martins Zutis, short animations by KIIN (Ines Christine Geisser & Kirsten Carina Geisser), Markus Haefliger & Anja Wicki and by Ernests Klavins as well as a cozy kuš! reading corner.

The exhibition takes place at the Forum Stadtpark and is supported by the Latvian Embassy in Austria.

Comics Artventures I

International Comics Week Riga, 20.11-25.11.2012

(Poster by Mārtiņš Zutis) 

kuš! together with the Latvian National Art Museum and in cooperation with Kaņepes Kultūras centrs invited 6 international and 4 Latvian artists to get inspired by Latvian classical art to create artventurous comics. Artists taking part from abroad were Mari Ahokoivu (Finland), Emelie Östergren (Sweden), Søren Mosdal (Denmark), Nicolas Zouliamis (Belgium),  König Lü.Q. (Switzerland) and Renata Gasiorowska (Poland). Latvian artists: Mikus Duncis, Ernests Kļaviņš, Anna Vaivare and Mārtiņš Zutis. 

During this very inspiring week different events took place, some only for the participating artists, but others also for the wider public. Here is a small report about it.

The week begun with a guided tour through the Museum's collection of Classical Latvian Art. Each artist got to pick a work to make a comics about it.

PSORIASIS izstāde

PSORIASIS
Jaunie ilustratori no Strasbūras

Ilustrācijas autore: Juliette Etrivert

 17.05 - 08.06 Francijas Institūtā, Rīgā, Elizabetes ielā 59
Atklāšana: trešdien, 16. maijā, plkst. 18.00

Izstādē: zīmējumi, komiksi un plakāti

Autori: Margaux Othats, Fleur Oury, Fanny Blanc, Hicham Amrani, Adrien Coquart, Juliette Etrivert, Luca M., Baptiste Virot, François Malingrëy, Raphaël Urwiller, Mayumi Otero un Quentin Duckit.

Psoriasis (http://fanzinepsoriasis.blogspot.com/) ir ilustratoru un komiksu autoru kolektīvs no Strasbūras, kuru 2010. gadā izveidoja Hicham Amrani un Adrien Coquart. Šobrīd tajā apvienojušies vairāki Strasbūras Mākslas akadēmijas (Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin) studenti. Kopā viņi rada ilustrāciju un komiksu žurnālu PSORIASIS, kas iznāk mazā tirāžā, sietspiedes tehnikā drukātiem vākiem, kā arī drukā plakātus un piedalās komiksu festivālos.

Ilustrācijas autors: Quentin Duckit

Izstāde Rīgā būs viņu pirmā starptautiskā izstāde; tajā skatāmi 12 autoru zīmējumi, sietspiedes tehnikā drukāti plakāti un komiksi. Izstādes atklāšanā piedalīsies arī četri Psoriasis pārstāvji: Quentin Duckit, Margaux Othats, Fleur Oury un Fanny Blanc.


Organizē: komiksu kultūras žurnāls kuš!, Psoriasis, Francijas Institūts Latvijā

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l'ultimo fiammifero

On Friday, 2nd of March we opened our "The Last Match" exhibition at one of the most beautiful comics festivals in Europe: Bilbolbul in Bologna! The exhibition has already traveled around quite a bit and during this time has also grown. Currently it includes 305 micro-sized works by artists from 51 countries. To make this exhibition even more special we especially invited several artists to make animations and therefore there are also three short films by KIIN (Ines Christine Geisser and Kirsten Carina Geisser), Markus Haefliger & Anja Wicki and by Ernests Klavins.

Nordicomics Closing Event

Tomorrow, the 8th of February we will have the closing event of the Nordicomics/Naturegraffix exhibition in NabaKlab. Currently artists from Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Poland and Latvia are here having a one week workshop creating comics inspired by Riga. Tomorrow evening they take a break and give you an insight into their work and then will fight in a unique comics battle.

flyer by Endrju

Pривет от Pитера!

kuš! is happy to report from the comics festival Boomfest in St. Petersburg. It is still on until October 16th, so if you happen to be there, do some boom boom boom!

kuš! took part in the festival with „The Last Match” exhibition, it can be seen in the Nobokov’s Museum – a great chance to get to know not only 283 illustrations in matchbox size, but also Nobokov’s butterfly collection and an exhibit by the Catalonian artist Miguel Gallardo. Gallardo’s exhibition derives from his relationship with his daughter who has autism and comics for them become part of their communication.

Here is a short animation introducing the world of Maria:

The Future Is Now

During the Contemporary Art Festival Survival Kit # 3 in Riga we had the chance to invite Léo Quievreux from France to make a solo exhibition. We had featured a comics by him in Š! #4 and he made the cover of kuš! #7 and already a long time we wanted to make an exhibition with him. Finally it worked out.

Cold Soup in Helsinki

Last month we had an exciting week in  the Nordic comics capital Helsinki. Now as we prepare for our next projects there, we should tell a bit what happened in Finland.

We had this exhibition "Cold Soup", presenting Latvian comics artists, ath the Helsinki Comics Centre. Participating artists were: Kristians Brekte, Rūta Briede, Kaspars Groševs, Endrju, Ernests Kļaviņš, Maija Līduma, Maija Kurševa, Anete Melece, Sabīne Moore, Oskars Pavlovskis, Reinis Pētersons, Ingrīda Pičukāne, Kristofers Reidzāns, Dace Sietiņa, Mārtiņš Upītis, Oskars Veilands-Kustikovs un Mārtiņš Zutis.  Ok, after so many names you probably want to see some pictures...

Cold Soup

If Kefir fights against Beetroot you get Cold Soup.

Mural drawn by kuš crew Reinis Pētersons, Sabīne Moore, Ingrīda Pičukāne, Martiņš Zutis and David Schilter

A report about our exhibition at the Finnish Comic Centre in Helsink follows soon. You can go to our facebook album to see some pics in the meantime.

Latvijas komiksu izstāde Somijas komiksu centrā Helsinkos

No 11. augusta līdz 2. septembrim Somijas komiksu centrā Helsinkos skatāma Latvijas
mākslinieku komiksu izstāde „Aukstā zupa”. Izstādē darbu oriģinālus izrādīs Latvijas mākslinieki,
kuri veiksmīgi eksperimentējuši ar Latvijā vēl neierasto vizuālās mākslas formu – komiksu, un
radījuši spilgtus un svaigus vizuālos stāstus.

Dace Sietina in Lambiek

Dace Sietina, Latvian artist living in the Netherlands, has a couple of times been published in (ku)š!, now she will have a personal exhibition in the famous comics shop Lambiek in Amsterdam. Go and enjoy her unique cut-outs!

The exhibition "let's cosmos" opens on Friday the first of July at 17.30 in Lambiek, Kerkstraat 132.

The Last Match at Ligatura Comics Festival

In the beginning of June the exhibition The Last Match traveled to Poland to the amazing Ligatura Comics Festival. The exhibition included works from 273 artists from 51 countries, including contributions from Polish artists Janek Koza (PL), Agata Nawrot (PL), Agnieszka Piksa (PL), Anna Maria Łuczak (PL) and Patryk Mogilnicki. The exhibition opening in the cozy Malingrad gallery was very successful with lots of visitors and was also attended by lots of participating international exhibition contributors such as Jeroen Funke (NL), Aleksandar Zograf (SRB), Tom Gauld (UK), Léo Quiévreux (F), Lucie Lomová (CZ), David Böhm (CZ), Juanita (DE) and Markus Huber (DE) and of course our very own Latvian crew Oskars Pavlovskis, Martins Zutis and Ingrida Picukane.

Thanks a lot  to Agata and Marek for helping setting up, we never were so fast and managed it in only two and a half hours this time. Special thanks also go to the great organizers of the festival: Michal and Anna!

The Last Match in Poland

Our exhibition The Last Match travels to Poland to the amazing Ligatura Comics Festival, where it will be called something like "w ostatnim meczu". The opening of the exhibition will be on the third of June. At the festival the exhibition curator David Schilter will be present together with Latvian artist Ingrida Picukane, Martins Zutis and Oskars Pavlovskis. There will be 273 contributions from 51 different countries on display. There will for example also be contributions from Polish artists Janek Koza (PL), Agata Nawrot (PL), Agnieszka Piksa (PL), Anna Maria Łuczak (PL) and Patryk Mogilnicki. As the exhibition keeps on growing, we hope to get more Polish artists for the upcoming shows. Especially excited we are, that at the Festival will also be present some other international exhibition contributors such as Jeroen Funke (NL), Aleksandar Zograf (SRB), Tom Gauld (UK), Léo Quiévreux (F), Lucie Lomová (CZ) and David Böhm (CZ).

Surprise Exhibition

Kuš! had an exhibition in Liège, Belgium and didn't even know about it. It took place in the cultural centre La Zone from 2nd until 8th of May. David Krančan, Domen Finzgar and Mateusz Skutnik where there with the famous Stripburger exhibition Greetings from Cartoonia and  came up with the idea to make an homage to our The Last Match exhibition.

As you see here, it is a bit smaller than the real one, but all the same a very pretty show, which made us very proud!

 This above is the work by Mateusz Skutnik from Poland

Here you see the contribution by David Krančan (Slovenia)

 And finally Domen Finzgar (Slovenia)

Thank you very much for making this happen and giving us this special surprise!